Serial transverse enteroplasty for short bowel syndrome: Hong Kong experience.

Objective: To report our experience with the first series of serial transverse enteroplasty operations (a novel bowel-lengthening procedure for patients with short bowel syndrome). DESIGN. Case series.

Complications of peptic ulcer disease in children and adolescents: minimally invasive treatments offer feasible surgical options.

Purpose: Surgery for complications of peptic ulcer disease (PUD) carries a significant morbidity and even mortality. The aim of this study was to determine the efficacy, safety, and outcome of children and adolescents undergoing minimally invasive treatment of bleeding and perforation complicating PUD.

Methods: One hundred thirty-two consecutive patients aged 6 to 17 years managed endoscopically for bleeding and laparoscopically for perforation from January 1999 to February 2006 were reviewed.

Electrogastrography in the management of pediatric functional dyspepsia and motility disorder.

Purpose: Electrogastrography (EGG) is a noninvasive investigation for recording gastric myoelectrical activity. We hypothesize that children with functional dyspepsia (FD) and gastrointestinal (GI) motility disorder have abnormal gastric myoelectrical activity. We aim to study the dyspepsia symptom scores and EGG of these children and compare them with those of the normal population.